IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 31st December 2017 – All Slots

IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 31st December 2017 All Slots – Get Questions asked, Good number of attempts and difficulty level of the exams.
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 31st December 2017 All Slots
The IBPS PO Prelims 2017 Slot 1 is over and its time for exam analysis. This is the first time IBPS SO Preliminary exam was conducted. Overall the level of this exam was Moderate. Today’s IBPS SO Prelims 2017 is over, now let us look at exam analysis of IBPS SO Prelims for Law/ Rajbhasha Adhikari. Overall the level of this exam was Moderate. Keep on reading to know all the details about types of questions asked in General Awareness, Reasoning and English Language of IBPS SO Prelims Remember that we have covered the exam analysis for Rajbhasha and Law officer. Here we give Questions asked, Good number of attempts and difficulty level of the exams. Read about Slot 1 of the preliminary exam. The Law Officer and Rajbhasha
exam do not have Quantitative Aptitude.
IBPS Preliminary Paper Pattern for law officer and Rajbhasha Adhikari
No | Questions | Marks | Duration | |
1 | Reasoning | 50 | 50 | Composite time duration of 1 hour |
2 | English Language | 50 | 50 | |
3 | General Awareness | 50 | 52 | |
Total | 150 | 150 |
It is a composite time of 2 hours for 150 questions and extra time will not be given.
Subject | Good Number of Attempts |
English Language | 22-24 |
Reasoning Ability | 33-37 |
General Awareness | 32-34 |
Total | 88-96 |
English Language
Level of Difficulty – Moderate
The level if English paper was moderate and this came as a surprise to students who had expected a difficult paper being a Specialist Officer Exam. Candidates who have practiced will be easily able to solve the section.
There were 2 sets of Reading Comprehension (which also had 1-2 questions based on vocabulary). The topic of RCs was- 1) Curroption related 2) Related to Britain’s Economy
Topics | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
Reading Comprehension | 20 | Moderate-Difficult |
Fillers (Double Fillers- Single Word) | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Phrase Replacement | 5 | Moderate |
Cloze Test (New Pattern) | 10 | Moderate |
Error Detection | 5 | Moderate |
Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | Moderate |
Total | 50 | Moderate |
Reasoning Ability
Level of Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
There were 4 puzzles and Seating Arrangement and was similar to the IBPS SO exam conducted yesterday.
Topics | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
Syllogism | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Puzzles and Seating Arrangement | 20 | Moderate |
Direction Sense | 1 | Easy |
Coding Decoding | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
Inequality | 5 | Easy |
Alphabet | 1 | Easy |
Data Sufficiency | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Logical Reasoning | 5 | Moderate |
Blood Relation | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
Total | 50 | Easy-Moderate |
General Awareness
Level of Difficulty: Moderate
General Awareness is a scoring section was good and candidates who are well prepared will be able to do well in the section. Most of the questions were from current affairs that happened from September – October. The questions were not from early occurrences of the year. Candidates who have current affairs of the last two months at their fingertips will be able to solve this section. There were around 10 questions of Banking and 10 question of Static Awareness.
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